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by Loughla 65 days ago
Images are interesting though. You can have a massive amount of images for only a few consumers.

I would be interested in statistics related to the percent of adults who would be considered child predators. I have zero scope on how large this issue is by percent of population.

If we're talking about 3% of everyone who is sexually attracted to children, that's one thing, but if it's .0000001% then the issue really is just the producers of content.

Does anyone here know of any studies or statistics? My basic googling hasn't really turned up anything trustworthy.
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disillusioned 65 days ago
That's what I'm getting at with the "few bad apples" reference: it's _possible_ (and I'd hope) that the percentages are very small... but the insane volume of things like _grooming_ and other behaviors, to say nothing of just how many women report some form of sexual assault or abuse by the time they reach adulthood being in, what, the high 30%s?... it's not great.
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formerly_proven 65 days ago
As per Wikipedia there is really bad/no data on this because almost all research relies on convicted pedophiles and going around making “are you a pedo, perchance?” surveys in the general population simply does not work.
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ainch 65 days ago
Germany has an anonymous support programme for people who feel paedophilic urges but don't wish to offend. I believe they've used that network for research, but I think it's probably quite a limited, and potentially biased, sample.
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adi_kurian 65 days ago
I think it is around that. I remember being startled hearing it.

https://scispace.com/pdf/how-common-is-men-s-self-reported-s...

Ghastly.

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throwaway55553 65 days ago
You can't have any meaningful statistics as long as people flip out whenever this topic comes up.

For some, "child predators" are those who do harmful things to toddlers.

For others, "child predators" are anyone who you want to accuse of it, like in this story: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/ke...

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TurdF3rguson 65 days ago
What percentage of pornhub visitors click on the "barely legal" category? I'm pretty sure that data is available.
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